The One Man Living Cartoon Factory

This isn't new, but a quick search finds no prior mentions of Ennio Marchetto on Boing Boing and I'm sure many of you will appreciate the One Man Living Cartoon Factory. This clip is from a show in Amsterdam in 2004.

Even a horrible caricature is still a cartoon. Outside of military “South Pacific” revues, I’ve always see drag (moist drag) more in line with envious tribute (to wit: my ex, who wanted more than anything to be his fabulous Heburn-like mother). But I can see how something as emasculating as donning a dress & lip-synching to Etta James could be seen as a mocking assault on women in a twisted Rove-logic kind of way.

He’s brilliant =) – I’ve seen him before on the telly, but seeing him posted here had me googling “Arlo Barlo(w?)” – another brilliant physical comedian with props I remember from the late 80s. Turned up very little, but curiously the 3rd google link took me to hunkystrippers.com where one of the folks reckons Arlo Barlo and Ennio Marchetto are one and the same! Can this be true? Does anyone else remember Arlo Barlo(w?)?

Bugger me! I remember “Arlo Barlow”!!!!! Skinny, possilbly bald dude with a bowler hat, who made his long, elastic arms and legs slowly disappear into his “body”! Something of a “one trick pony” I think…. Saw him on one of the alternative comedy shows sometime in the 80’s – almost certainly on Channel 4 (probably about the same time as the infamous “Red Triangle” experiment!) :-)